Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	servant_n	service_n	3,408	5	7.4851	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56182	The contra-replicant, his complaint to His Maiestie	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing P400; ESTC R22502	28,940	31

fellow Courtiers use the King cannot be happy but by the uncertainty of war that is by making his subjects miserable but such Traytors as I am if our advise bee entertained propose to the King a more certaine way to happinesse by Peace that is by making his subjects yet more happy but our Replicant ●●ith the King is willing to condescend to any thing but you will admit of no reconciliation except the King will remove those servants whom he had found most honest and faithfull in his afflictions and prefer you undeserving in their place Here is the grand knot indeed we oppose such as have been the Counsellors or instruments of such and such designes the King saith they are his friends and he cannot abandon his friends 't is confest the King ought not to abandon his friends but the King m●y erre in the knowledge of friends and as he ought to protect his friends in whom he cannot err so he is not bound to protect such as he meerly thinks his friends and in whom if he will beleeve the voyce of the people he is very much deceived We have as much interest in the Kings friends and Counsellors as we have in our Laws Liberties lifes any thing for we know we can enjoy nothing if the King shall owne those for his friends whom we know to be our enemies and account of these as good Couns●●ls which we know to be treasons against the State that Prince that will be arbitrary and rely upon his owne meer opinion and discretion in the imployment of Counsellors and Ministers of State having no regard to publique approbation therein is as injurious altogether as he that will admit of no other Law judge nor rule in the propriety and liberty of his subjects but his owne brest only It will be replyed not fancy but sense teaches this that he that obeyes the Kings commands and fights under the Kings Standart is more a friend than he that disobeyes and fight against the King this is demonstration no error can be in it I answer no 't is most false Scripture and reason manifest it to be most false Doeg did obey Saul when all his other servants denyed obedience yet even in that obedience he made himselfe culpable and his master abominable whereas the other servants of Saul were dutifull in withholding an unlawfull duty So those 3000 Souldiers which marched out after Saul to take away the life of just and uncondemned David they were instruments in a base disservice to Saul they are not to be justified for this service whereas those 600 valiant men which accompanied David in his dangers and afflictions and were ready with their sword drawn to guard that innocence which Saul himself should have guarded are not to be accounted false to Saul but true to David And the meere presence of Saul on the one side did not make the cause unjust on the other side nor if himself had fallen by rushing oftentimes upon defensive weapons could that horrid guilt of his death have been imputed to any but to himself Cursed therefore yea thrice cursed be these miscreants which ingage the King in this war against the Parliam not without hazard of his sac●ed Person if they be private persons and have not sufficiency to decide this great controversie betwixt the King and Parliament For my part I dare not pronounce sentence neither for nor against the Parliament as the Replicant without all scruples doth in all places but I may safely say that if the King does though in person unjustly wage war against the Parliament the E of Essex and his Army may far more lawfully fight in defence of that supreame Court than David and his followers did for the protection of one innocent private man And taking the controversie as undecided 't is not apparent who fight for or against the King and the King may himself as lawfully claime to be sole supreme judge over all single and universal persons and over all Laws and Courts and in all cases whatsoever as to claime any man a Traitor for serving the Parliament in this war and this if he claimes what Priviledge remaines to Parliament what limits remaine to the Prince what liberty remain●s to the Subjects 'T is not only then trayterous but ridicul●u● in the Replicant to assume that su●rem●cy to himself which is d●nyed to the King by condemning the Parliament and justifying the Kings party in all passages of this War we wh●n we except against the K●ngs party asperse not at all the Kings person and the Law it ●elf makes ever a distinctio● betwixt the King and his agents th●ugh our Replicant will not allow any such severance but betwixt the P●rl●am and its instrumen●s no such severance is except for the worse for there pejor ●st author quam actor but sayes the Replic●nt 'T is the unhappinesse of the King that he hath a par●y 't is the fault of the Parliament he desires and ought to have the whole See here 't is the Parliaments fault that Per●y Digby Winter Mountague Cro●●s Killegrew and many other of the Quee●s devoted Creatures are preferred in the Kings favour before the Parliament And 't is the Parliaments fault that Rivers King and the Titular Cou●t of the ●alatinate with s●me other Irish Papists ●●●ly come over have the honour of the Court command of the Cam● and spoyle of the Kingdom to reward them whilst Manchester Hambd●n H●llis ●im Strod Haselrig are designed for the ●l●ck and that u●on such charges as shall intangle almost all the most eminent Gentry and Nobility as well as them That this is the Kings unhappinesse is aggreed but that this is the Parliaments fault is not proved by the Replicant and we are not bound alwayes to abate him proofes in matters of this consequence D●ubtlesse we are likely to expect great performances from ●arliaments hereafter if it shall be guilt in them that they are rejected and if they shall be rejected only because other more favoring Cou●●iers pretend better affection to the Kings private advantage The actions of Popish and Malignant Courtyers cannot represent them more friendly to the K. than the Parliaments No honour or prosperity has followed hitherto therupon all their diff●rence is that their single professions of Love are more credited than such as are credited by the Votes of the Generality and attestations of Parliament Howsoever though many men do think private advise and testimony to be more valuable and sit for Princes to hearken too then publick I never till now heard that it was a fault or blam● i● Parliaments to be lesse valued or accepted then priva●e p●rsons To what purpose is it said that the King ●ught to have the whole it is our c●mplaint that the King will not accept of the whole and it is the Replicants complaint that the King is not suffered to injoy the whole This shall reconcile all let the whole be received as the whole and every part as